Projects include:

Minit
Organ Eye
Bad Statistics
Full Fucking Moon
The Garbage & The Flowers
Droszkhi (solo)

Born in Wellington in 1972, Torben Tilly first started playing music in 1991 as the drummer in Wellington's The Garbage & The Flowers. Following the self-released cassette The Deep Niche, they went on to release a 7" on Twisted Village (1993), an LP on The Now Sound (1997), some polycarbonate 7 inches and various songs on compilation CDs. [see discography]

In 1993 Tilly moved to Australia and studied at Sydney College of the Arts, focusing primarily on sound art and installation.

In 1997, while living in Sydney he formed the duo Minit with Jasmine Guffond. For more than a decade Minit have been performing live in Australia, Europe and the U.K, and producing records & sound installations based on the use of processed acoustic, electronic, and found sound sources. Their releases to date convey a unique meeting of improvised abstract electronics and stripped back minimalism, yet reveal in almost every case a penchant for the unexpected, either as a melodic twist into song or as a sudden implosion into fractured noise. Minit’s first full-length releases were with the label Sigma Editions which was co-founded by Rosy Parlane & Dion Workman in 1998. They have further released material on the labels Staubgold and Tonschacht.

In 2006 Minit formed the collaborative project Organ Eye with David Maranha and Patrícia Machás from Portugal, releasing an album on Staubgold in 2007.

Torben Tilly & Jasmine Guffond have produced installations in galleries and museums including multi-channel sound and video works, both as Minit and individually in collaboration with other artists.

Tilly works mostly collaboratively, not only in music but also in the visual arts. Other current art/music collaborations include:
Full Fucking Moon (with Bek Coogan); Bad Statistics (with Jo Contag, Mark Williams, Jeff Henderson, Justin Barr); and with Irish/Swedish artist Robin Watkins.

Torben Tilly is currently based in Wellington, N.Z.

Notable exhibitions include: Menschheit, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin (2008); Tomorrow, again, Artspace, Sydney (2007); High-Tide, CAC, Vilnius and Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw (2006); Anywhere Now, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney; Variable Resistance, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2003).